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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Control Center Quarterly Recurrence Calendar

Currently when creating a new Control Center calendar, the only recurrence selections available are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I believe it would be useful to add a quarterly recurrence as well.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Provide documentation for importing Control Center to a new server

Much of Control Center installation documentation is focused on doing so in place on an existing server. Please provide detailed documentation for migrating to a new server. For example, we currently have a production 6.0.0.1 environment and the d...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Documentation 0 Planned for future release

Update Attribute via API Call

Would like to be able to update a user attribute through an API call. For example if attribute "Rollout" exists, would like to change value of "Rollout" from an API call outside of MRM (similar to how Bulk Upload works). This is something that may...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day.. We have a partner who usuaully sends arounf 500 transaction per day but there are some case it incrases upto 2000 per day during whihc we will get infra issues wrt cpu heavy utlization ,...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Support for Windows Server 2022

Hello, Since Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Server 2012, we are needing to upgrade our current servers. We would like to move to Server 2022 but it doesn't seem to be supported yet. Would you be able to tell me if you are currently working on cer...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Superuser account for MyFileGateway to monitor multiple partner's file routing activity.

Superuser account for MyFileGateway to monitor multiple partner's file routing activities which can help particular application or group to see all partner activities under one accountability.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Configure additional costs to be considered by SFO for optimizing the node

Apart from the Processing and Shipment Charges, that are being considered as part of the Shipping Model to calculate the cost to serve from the node, SFO should also have a way to add the cross-border customs charges, insurance cost and other misc...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release